Emley

Born: 31 July 1918 - Jefferson County, Washington

Parents: Leon A. Emley & Martha Benish-Emley

Siblings: 1 brother

Hometown: Port Townsend, Washington

Occupation: stationary engineer

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 8 April 1941 - Tacoma, Washington

Training:

- Fort Lewis, Washington

Units:

- 194th Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty:

- Philippine Islands

Engagements:

- Battle of Luzon

- Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War:

- 9 April 1942

- Death March

            - started march at Mariveles at the southern tip of Bataan
            - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars
                - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men
                    - 100 POWs put into each car
                    - dead remained standing
            - Capas - POWs leave boxcars - dead fall to floor
            - POWs walked the last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell

POW Camps:

- Philippine Islands:

- Camp O'Donnell

            - unfinished Filipino training base
            - Japanese put camp into use as POW Camp
            - only one water spigot for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate

- Bridge Building Detail

Executed:

- 10 July 1942 - Batangas, Batangas

Note:

- POWs went out on work detail to rebuild bridges destroyed during the withdraw into

Bataan. They were divided into two groups. The first group was sent to a sawmill while

the second group built the bridges. Howell was assigned to the sawmill detail. One night,

a POW escaped from the building being used as a barracks by the POWs. The Japanese

decided that the five men who slept to the right and the five men who slept to the left of

the man could have stopped his escape. They executed these men as an example to the

other POWs that there were consequences for escapes.

Buried:

- American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

- Plot: D Row: 8 Grave: 49